"Two women seldom grow intimate but at..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
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“The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.”
“The essential qualities of a true Pan Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor; namely, mutual understanding, and through such understanding, a sympathetic appeciation of the other's point of view. It is only in this manner that we can hope to build up a system of which confidence, friendship, and good will are the cornerstones.”
“You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say 'here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life'.”
More on Gossip
“I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.”
“Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.”
“Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.”